Baldwin has its next coach

The Baldwin High School boys basketball program has never won a WPIAL championship. The man likely to be the team’s new coach has five titles.

Jeff Ackermann is leaving PineRichland and is expected to be Baldwin’s new coach. The Post-Gazette has learned that Ackermann has been offered and accepted the Baldwin job, but his hiring will not be official until the school board approves it at a meeting Wednesday.

It is a notable coaching move because Ackermann has an impressive resume, including three WPIAL championships at Moon and two at Pine-Richland. He also won a PIAA title at Moon. Ackermann has been Pine-Richland’s coach the past six seasons and had a 126-35 record. He won WPIAL Class 6A championships in 2006-17 and lost in the 2018 final. His 2017 team also made it to the PIAA championship before losing to Reading.

Before Pine-Richland, Ackermann was Moon’s coach for 13 seasons and was 224-116. Besides winning three championships (Class 3A) at Moon, Ackermann’s team also lost in the 2008 Class 4A title game to Central Catholic.

Baseball

Hard-throwing right-handed reliever Emmanuel Clase was suspended 80 games for testing positive for a banned performance-enhancing drug. Clase was the biggest acquisition by Cleveland in a big offseason trade that sent two-time Cy Young winner Corey Kluber to the Texas Rangers.

• Former Oakland minor league player Miguel Marte died from complications related to the coronavirus. He was 30. Marte played first base, catcher and right field in the Athletics system from 2008-12.

Football

The Jacksonville Jaguars declined to pick up the fifth-year option on running back Leonard Fournette’s rookie contract. The decision was no surprise because the team tried to trade Fournette over the past month.

• The Miami Dolphins traded former first-round pick Charles Harris to the Atlanta Falcons for a seventh-round pick just one day after releasing defensive lineman Taco Charlton.